Paypal Deals Blow To Freenet

hankaholic writes "I was checking into the latest progress of the Freenet project when I noticed a disturbing note on their homepage: 'Paypal has frozen the account we use to accept donations over the web, they refuse to give any reason other than "use of an anonymous proxy" [...] all of the projects subscriptions have been canceled which is a significant setback. Other means of accepting donations, including E-Gold, are still active.' Paypal is sending them a check for their remaining balance. The news update on the Freenet homepage also includes contact information for some people at Paypal."

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Re:Paypal has the right

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It is not a stretch at all to link Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Jose Padilla, and the legal statements that the Geneva convention does not have to be followed, that Jose Padilla, an American citizen, does not deserve a trial and can be detained indefinitely by the state if it so wishes to (destroying the Fifth Amendment write to habeas corpus ("nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"), and see a pattern of denying national and international rights to humans, and then on the other hand seeing rights given and extended ("intellectual property") to intangible legal entities.

As far as why "they" hate "us" - considering myself as a worker, and the people ordering the attacks on Iraq (and Haiti, and sending "military aid" to Colombia and Israel and everywhere else) as members or flunkies of the idle class; and after looking at Abu Ghraib, the CIA role in overthrowing democratic Chile, El Mozote, the CIA role in overthrowing Mossadegah in Iran, the mining of Nicaragua's harbors, the Vietnam war, the "secret bombing" of Cambodia, the billions in arms to Israel, Colombia, the war in Iraq, the recent invasion of Haiti and so on and so forth, all while on the day Pat Tillman was killed him sahring the NY Times cover with a GI who came home from Iraq - on welfare...the US idle class elites making a class war on the workers at home and against the working people of the world abroad, I certainly find myself in the "they" category, and the parasitical idle class elite, and perhaps you, depending on your allegiance, in the "us" category. My "us" is with the working class, not the idle class, which is a synonym for US foreign policy which is barbaric, terroristic and monstrous, and which I am quite unfortunately financing through my tax dollars. My only satisfaction is knowing one day, like Louis XVI or Tsar Nicholas II, the Paris Hiltons of the world will get their comeuppance.